Questions tagged [weapons]
A tool or instrument used in order to inflict damage or harm to living beings - physical or mental -, artificial structures, or systems.
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Is Israel exporting 100s-of-Millions, or Billions, USD of arms per year?
A multi-annual chart on the "trading economies website suggests Israeli arms exports have a "total insurable value" of hundreds of millions of USD per year.
However, this story on the ...
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Did Sergei Pashinsky say Bayraktar are not effective in combat, and get shot down almost immediately?
In this tweet with an attached video, it is claimed that the chairman of Ukraine's Committee on National Security and Defense Council, Serhiy Pashynskyi said,
“Bayraktar has more PR and corruption ...
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Does Ukraine have biological weapons facilities?
There's a viral conspiracy theory that Russia attacked Ukraine to neutralize Ukraine's biological weapons. Among many other sources, this tweet from Glenn Greenwald cites a video where Senator Marco ...
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Do these photos show Ukrainian children being trained to fight the Russian army?
From a widely-shared Reddit post:
Ukrainian children trained to use rifles against Russian soldiers
The other photos in the post are shown below.
Neither the post nor the comments provide a source. ...
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Does Havana Syndrome exist?
The US House of Representatives recently passed a bill to help diplomats and officials that have been impacted by 'Havana Syndrome'. This legislation has already passed the Senate, and since signed ...
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Are Hamas' Qassam rockets not very destructive?
Recently there was this answer on Politics.SE, which quotes extensively from Norman Finkelstein's book, Gaza: An Inquest Into its Martyrdom. In particular, there was deep disagreement from this quote ...
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How could a glass pane and a piece of cloth survive an explosion?
The Tilma of the Virgin of Guadalupe is purported to have survived an explosion from dynamite placed inside a bouquet of flowers in 1921. It is commonly purported that this is a miracle, so I was ...
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Did German troops ignite pools of kerosene on a ship in March 1943?
A recent video on the YouTube Lindybeige channel relates the story of Operation Creek in WWII in which irregular British forces invaded a German ship off Goa (now in India), March 1943. He cites James ...
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Was the yellow fever virus a past standardized biological weapon in the US Army?
Dany Shoham writes in a 2012 paper [full text, paywalled]:
The yellow fever virus – a past standardized BW in the US Army, then carried by infected Aedes mosquitoes as vectors – was thus genetically ...
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Are there artificially created viruses that are both deadly like Ebola and transmissible like the common cold?
A popular YouTube personality, Dr. John Campbell, a retired nurse teacher, makes a claim in a May 4th video around the 4m27s mark:
Now let's be quite clear. No-one is saying [SARS-CoV-2] is a ...
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Was the German V2 rocket the only weapon whose production killed more than its use?
Early in David Edgerton's history of technology, The Shock of the Old he discusses cost benefit analysis applied to some military weapons.
He argues, for example, that the US would have caused a lot ...
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Has Longitudinal Wave Interferometry ever been used to alter the weather?
I read about these in a few places,
This article states:
Powers of Longitudinal Wave Interferometers
1 - influence and control the weather,
2 - deviate the giant jetstreams of the upper atmosphere,
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Was the Browning Automatic Rifle kept from US troops during WWI?
On the History Channel show Modern Marvels: Engineering Disasters 2 (S05E30) there is a segment on the French Chauchat rifle. Dr. Jack Atwater, former director of the US Army Ordnance Museum, makes ...
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Do inaudible sonic weapons exist?
The US is investigating whether diplomats in Cuba were subjected to a sonic weapon that caused hearing problems:
The Guardian, 11 Aug 2017
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Did the government of Nazi Germany sell Mauser pistols to an underground Jewish army?
The Guardian article Ken Livingstone faces fresh inquiry over Hitler Zionism remarks quotes Livingstone as saying:
the Nazi government...started selling Mauser pistols to the underground Jewish ...
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